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Eighteen-year-old Francesca comes to England to achieve her life-long ambition of learning to fly. The first lessons go really well and Doug, her instructor, describes her as a natural pilot. But when Doug's actions lead Francesca to question his motives, she starts to lose her confidence. Her dream of independence in the sky is in danger.

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Oxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience.

Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills.

Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story - very important for fluent reading and extensive reading.

There's a wide choice of titles too - something for everyone.

• Graded according to the acclaimed Bookworms syllabus
• Award-winning titles
• Stunning covers
• Extended activities section at the back
• Word count and CEF level on every cover

Oxford Bookworms - enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience.

Research shows reading a lot improves all your language skills.

Experts recognize Oxford Bookworms as the most consistent series in terms of language control, length, and quality of story - very important for fluent reading and extensive reading.

There's a wide choice of titles too - something for everyone.

• Graded according to the acclaimed Bookworms syllabus
• Award-winning titles
• Stunning covers
• Extended activities section at the back
• Word count and CEF level on every cover

This 'tasty' collection brings together five stories and extracts all with food at their heart. Food and literature have a long relationship and food is used to shed light on characters and relationships, from meals as the centre of family life to food as a political symbol.

Unadapted short stories by Louisa May Alcott, Alphonse Daudet, Jack London, Laura Esquivel and Damon Runyon.

This collection brings together six stories from six different countries (India, Argentina, Russia, New Zealand, Sudan and Australia). They tell the tales of families and individuals, of love, loss and struggles against adversity. Their universal themes are coloured by the culture and society of the countries they describe.

INCLUDES:

The Voyage (Katherine Mansfield)

The Darling (Anton Chekhov)

The Drover´s Wife (Henry Lawson)

A Devoted Son (Anita Desai)

The Roof (Horacio Quiroga)

Missing Out (Leila Aboulela)

The Mystery Stories Collection brings together stories which explore mystery in all its forms. From psychological mysteries to mysteries of the heart, from strange phenomena to good old-fashioned detective puzzles, there is sure to be a story here to enthral every reader of mystery.

INCLUDES:

The Lost Special  (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

The Mysterious Card (Cleveland Moffet)

The Mildenhall Trasure (Roald Dahl)

The Yellow Wallpaper (Charlotte Perkins Gilman)

The Lady or the Tiger? (Frank R. Stockton)

When Becky Sharp and Amelia Sedley leave school, their feet are set on very different paths. Kind, foolish Amelia returns to her comfortable home and wealthy family, to await a suitable marriage, while Becky must look out for herself, earning her own living in a hard world. But Becky is neither kind nor foolish, and with her quick brain and keen eye for a chance, her fortunes soon rise, while Amelia's fall.

Greed, ambition, loyalty, folly, wisdom . . . Thackeray's famous novel gives us a witty and satirical picture of English society during the Napoleonic wars.

Oxford Bookworms enjoy a world-wide reputation for high-quality storytelling and a great reading experience.

Research shows reading a lot improves